This all started as a fairly “normal” attempt at making standing lams, but continued turning into a much more elaborate specialized “woven light” plan
woven lamps
The Tree Organ at Outer Roominations and AMF
Puppet Slam Summer 2024
This salmon was made for the cowtown serenades show: Tales From Cowtown. In one of their stories about natural disaster preparedness, the salmon inspires the river to turn course and head back to the headwaters flooding the town.
After a this seasonal career the fish returned home and game a final performance
This is ” Smoked Salmon”, at the Nettle & Clam Puppet Slam Summer 2024
click below for the full playlist of the event
Perseverance Furthers
This Puppet show explores narratives based on elements of the Yi-Ching Book of changes and the Divinatory system it embodies.
The main Character, Dr. Persey V. Further is a scientist specializing in the general field of Change, which ends up looking a lot like a fortune teller. They are a life size puppet made mostly out of recycled furniture parts, built around a Chandelier like core structure of a Yi-Ching Hexagram.
Partial performance elements of Perseverance Furthers participated in the Arcata PuppetSlam of 2022 and 2023.
Belly Of The Beast
This Sculptural Installation was part of the Junque Art show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka CA. 2023
This large mythical dinosour/bird/beast is made with 100% recycled materials. Featuring in its belly made from a toy plastic drum turned mini atrium a Mango seed sprouting against all odds in the Belly of the Beast.
The weight on our shoulders
This sculptural installation at the Brenda Tuxford Gallery in Eureka was part of BackCountry MetaVerse, a group show exploring connections between AI / Virtual Realities and the ongoing degradation of our Natural Physical world.
The old scale under the fashionized Globe indicates the sad state of affairs our tangible natural world is experiencing under the weight of the Militarized trunk full of an enigmatic substance “Enforced Depletium Simplex”
Jerk Kitchen Mural(s)
Been painting two large mural for an awesome Jamaican Restaurant in Eureka… almost done
Shesh Besh Loom Calculator
It was my pleasure to conceive and co-
curate this group show at Ink Poople Center For The Arts Brenda Tuxford Gallery in Eureka
Here is my contribution: The Shesh Besh Loom
Board games are a good way to pass time in between. And very few games hold the balance between luck and skill as delicately as Shesh Besh (aka BackGammon.) This millenia old stage is the scene of two tribes weaving in migration through eachother in opposing directions, their march dictated by the roll of a pair of dice.
A set of simple rules makes the flow of the game effortless… almost meditative… allowing the mind to wander free into other realms.
North Country Fair 2022
lovely weekend at the north county fair in arcata, paintings and prints alongside Basket Song’s creations
Mandalas
Somehow Through the pandemic, getting back to dunking brushes into paint, mandalas became a thing:
maybe sanity related? not sure…